Moor Row Primitive Methodist Chapel, Cumberland 1878

Grid ref NY006142

The Chapel and school were built in 1878 at the junction of Church Street and Penzance Street. The chapel had 350 lettable and 120 free sittings. It had closed by 1940.

Sources

Cumbria Archive Service, Whitehaven DCM2/387)

Carlisle Library, 1A287, Methodist Property Statistics 1940

NLS 25” OS Cumberland LXVII.15 1899  

Site visit 23.9.2017

Moor Row PM chapel, facade, 23.9.2017,
G W Oxley
Moor Row PM chapel, west side, 23.9.2017,
G W Oxley

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  • I live on Penzance Street, where the second photo was taken: and can report that the building shown now seems in very good repair; and is currently occupied by JLM Motors, Central Garage – MOT, Servicing & Repair/Car Repair and Maintenance. There is a great ‘Hope’ mural painted on the Church Street façade: made possible by Every Life Matters (suicide awareness and prevention charity) and Beardy Synergy (artists).

    By Stephen R Ward (23/10/2021)
  • The Primitive Methodist magazine 1877 page 569 records the laying of the memorial stones for a new Primitive Methodist chapel at Moor Row, in the Whitehaven station. We are told nothing more.

    By Christopher Hill (16/05/2020)

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